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Author Buchwald, Jed Z.

Title Newton and the origin of civilization [electronic resource] / Jed Z. Buchwald & Mordechai Feingold.

Imprint Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2013.

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Description ix, 528 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Troubled Senses -- Troubled Numbers -- Erudition and Chronology in Seventeenth-Century England -- Isaac Newton on Prophecies and Idolatry -- Aberrant Numbers : The Propagation of Mankind before and after the Deluge -- Newtonian History -- Text and Testimony -- Interpreting Words -- Publication and Reaction -- The War on Newton in England -- The War on Newton in France -- The Demise of Chronology -- Evidence and History -- Appendix A: Signs, Conventions, Dating, and Definitions -- Appendix B: Newton's Computational Methods -- Appendix C: Commented Extracts from Newton's MS Calculations -- Appendix D: Placing Colures on the Original Star Globe -- Appendix E: Hesiod, Thales, and Stellar Risings and Settings.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727.
Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727 -- Philosophy.
Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727 -- Public opinion.
Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727. Chronology of ancient kingdoms amended.
Scientists -- England -- Biography.
Philosophers -- England -- Biography.
Chronology, Historical -- History -- 17th century.
Civilization, Ancient -- Philosophy.
Public opinion -- Europe -- History -- 17th century.
Europe -- Intellectual life -- 17th century.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Feingold, Mordechai.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780691154787 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
9781400845187 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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